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From the USA Today bestselling author of Sunshine Beach , a story of four women trying to rebuild more than their lives... Before you can fix it up, you might have to tear it down... Embroiled in a battle to regain control of their renovation-turned-reality TV show, Do Over , Maddie, Avery, Nikki, and Kyra find themselves holding tight to the frayed ends of their friendship and relationships. Maddie must face the realities of dating a rock star once again topping the charts and deal with her hapless ex-husband, while Avery is caught up in family drama even as she attempts to transform a tiny cottage into a home for the newly impoverished heiress who helped bankroll their last renovation. Put on bedrest, a hugely pregnant Nikki can’t quite believe love can last, or trust in her own maternal instinct. And Kyra, who has secretly put Bella Flora at risk in an attempt to salvage Do Over , must decide whether to accept a desperately needed bail out from her son’s famous father that c...

Madeline, Avery and Nicole are back. The ladies have been recruited to star in a reality television show called Do-Over. The show is based around house remodeling. This is just the opportunity that Nicole needed. Especially after her brother, Malcolm's ponzi scheme. Nicole needs a Do-Over. The reality show is a nice way for the three women to spend the summer together. If only the cameras could but out of their private lives. I have read several books by Wendy Wax now. I have liked them enough to read more books by this author. Ocean Beach is the follow up novel to 10 Beach Road. It is in 10 Beach Road that readers are introduced to Madeline, Avery, and Nicole. I fell in love with these ladies and was excited to reconnect with them again in Ocean Beach. For some reason this time, I just was not feeling this book as much as I had hoped. While, I like Madeline, Avery and Nicole, the drama that they had was just too much for me. This book read too chick it for me. Which is n...

Madeline Singer is tried and needs a break. Unfortunately, Madeline’s life is about to get shook upside down very, quickly. First Madeline receives a shocking surprise, when she learns that her husband was laid off from his job…six months ago. Than Madeline’s daughter, Kyra returns home, only to inform her that she is pregnant. Lastly, Madeline’s husband tells her that they are broke. He invested all their extra money with a man named Malcolm Dyer. Malcolm ends up becoming a Bernie Madoff and leaves the country with their money. Avery Lawford is the host of Hammer and Nail, a remodeling show. Nicole Grant is the founder and owner of Heart Inc., a match making business. The only things that these other two women have in common with Madeline are that they have all been robbed of their money by Malcolm and they are also the joint owners of a beach house. How will these three women survive the summer at Ten Beach Road? I liked this book a lot. I started it on my lunch hour and before I kn...

Vivien Armstrong Gray was covering one of the biggest stories when things went terribly wrong and Vivien ended up getting shot in the butt. After this incident, Vivien has become the butt of everyone’s jokes. Vivien needs a break, so she heads down to stay with her sister, Melanie and her two children, Sheila and Trip. Vivien soon realizes things aren’t always as they seem in the suburbs. Vivien comes up with the idea to write a news column about the burbs. She calls it Postcards from Suburbia. She writes under a pen name of Scarlett Leigh. Things don’t quite add up in the death of Melanie’s husband, J.J. Vivien decides to do some investigating into his death. How long will Vivien be able to survive in the suburbs? Magnolia Wednesdays is the first book I have read by author, Wendy Wax. I have wanted to check out her books but just haven’t until now. Vivien has so much life and character to her. The funniest moments were when she was driving. Anyone and everyone had better stay in their...

You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side of the street? For me, other writers’ books are like that too. The thing is, everyone else’s work just looks…easier. This is because you didn’t watch them sweat over the same paragraph for three hours. Or see them stop after each painfully wrung sentence to go to the refrigerator. You don’t know that at times they would rather organize their pantry (and possibly did) rather than write those words that seem so seamless now. You don’t know how many loads of laundry it took them before they finished that chapter. Or how often they stopped and stared out the window to watch a squirrel sprint down a tree before they completed those pages of dialogue that seemed to trip off their characters’ tongues and made you laugh out loud. Yep, other writers’ books appear so effortless that sometimes you want to weep with envy. They flow in ways that can only be true from afar. You’re certain as you read those other writers’ books that ...